US costs $20 billion/day to run
Dotcom says running the US government costs $20 billion a day, a pace he considers financially impossible to sustain.
Snapshot · The Tucker Carlson Show
Hacker Kim Dotcom Issues Dark Warning on Surveillance, Electronic Voting Machines, and Nuclear War
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Aug 7, 2026
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Ukraine, Russia, and NATO's Losing War
At 24:37 · chapter starts 22:35
Tucker asks about geopolitics, and Dotcom delivers a consistent, bleak forecast. Russia will win the war in Ukraine — that is what the battlefield shows — and there will be no settlement [1] — Kim Dotcom "The US is carrying $39 trillion in debt it can never repay, at a cost of $20 billion a day to run the government. Dotcom says collapse is i…" 24:20 . NATO, which he calls a toothless tiger, will nonetheless keep attacking Russia because the West has invested too much in US hegemony to allow it to fail. The economic logic is stark: Europe is deeply indebted to the United States, so if US stock markets collapse, European companies listed there collapse too — trillions in losses that neither side can afford. Dotcom acknowledges Tucker's point that this policy seems to be accelerating American decline rather than preventing it, agreeing that the West is making the situation worse. The through-line is the US debt — $20 billion a day to run, $39 trillion in total — a level that makes collapse inevitable regardless of the military outcome.
The US Debt Spiral Is Terminal — And Could Go Nuclear
The US is carrying $39 trillion in debt it can never repay, at a cost of $20 billion a day to run the government. Dotcom says collapse is inevitable — and the endgame he fears most is a desperate nuclear first strike.
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